If it ain't broke...

Well, it turns out we couldn't take on Malistaire at 2:10 AM in the morning, since everyone else was in bed, so we had to wait until sunrise to see if anyone was willing to help Mindy and Chris St. out. I am not saying these two couldn't take on Malistaire's lair by themselves, it's just that they would have had to flee a lot more than they would with two others, and it never hurts to have a friend to support.

Chris: "You know what, Mal?"

Chris: "(bleep) YOU."

But in the end, those two punished Malistaire in the name of Venus and love, and Malistaire and his wife were reunited once more... again. (Amy defeated him the last time, and Chris had to help Sophia Shadowspear, but you know the whole story about THAT.) Mindy packed a ton of Otomo Fury cards in her side-deck, because as I said, Orthrus sucks when you're fighting anyone but a Myth Shielder. We want to thank Mr. Hawkwind(who had to log out before he could reach the final battles) and someone else who briefly joined for the Gurtok battles.  Both of our heroes fell to less than 2000 health but survived, regardless.

LOOT:

Chris: "Are you KIDDING ME!?!!?" Mindy: "Jealous much?" ;p

Yeah, Mindy got her final piece of Grandmaster Gear from Mal, the robe, but Chris was denied even when he wasted half of our remaining crowns there on the second-chance chest. (TWO Dragonfire Cloaks? SERIOUSLY? Well, Sunmancer will be happy.)

 

I decided to have Chris decline the quest to get the key to Celestia (fail: You can't do that - fine, I just won't let him take the door until that quest is done) as I wanted to do the Warehouse first. Yeah, it's evil, but KI was trying to start off the second Evil arc and they did a great job with this quest chain... it's just that the boss cheats were a bit stupid. No offense, KI, but could you have toned the cheating bosses down a bit? (cough cough Jabberwock and Young Morganthe cough cough) (I won't bore you with the details but we got through it okay. Now maybe I can focus on my other wizards...)

Speaking of cheating bosses, the Midnight Sun Pagoda! Yep, Taylor, the fourth member of the Malistaire run who only helped with the Gurtoks, invited Mindy and Chris to a Midnight Sun Pagoda she found in a castle tour, which was a lot harder even at Tier 2 because I sort of forgot the Samoorai Quartet are cheaters and spam proc attacks if you use Area of Attacks, so they are no nos. They had to flee battle to use a potion. The last pig guy was easier because Taylor used Stormzilla on him when he dropped guard.

Mindy: "FINALLY!"

Mindy FINALLY got her Master Artisan Badge with a lot of help from Ames, who got all of her Agave Nectar, thank goodness. Just needed one more turquoise for the war shield. Mistcloud farmed a lot of black lotuses while gathering agave in Mangrove Marsh(stupid birds) and a couple of Black Pearls dropped too!

He's about to get PWNED. :)

Amy also completed the Chronus quest thanks to a fellow Thaumaturge and a necro who kept getting beaten up by the Lost Shades until several Lords of Winter took them out, and Amy did the killing blow to Chronus. She got a nice ice toga, the Senator's Windfall Toga, which is better armor. It does drop her stats a bit but it'll do until we force Hades to cough up the Unseen Raiment. ^_^